Friday, August 11, 2006

8 months ago today...I met Nic

8 months ago today [12/11/05] I woke at 5 a.m. with your basic cramp, 7 months pregnant in the Hilton Hotel in Rome, Italy and gave birth to a 3 lb boy 2 hours later in the emergency room of the Vatican Hospital where no one spoke English and I had to only push twice to get him out but still ended up with 15 stitches.

After three months with him living in a box [incubator], two infections and a lot of MRIs, trip to the Vatican, trip to the US embassy, and me living there 7 days a week during visiting hours we came home and here he is today 20 lbs. and all things check out NORMAL!! I am a lucky girl so this is me being a schluppy mom...don't worry this blog will not turn into a "mommy and me" spot but LR has cats and at the moment Nicolas Antonio is all I've got...and I woke up proud today to see how far we have come by how he looks in this picture...so I didn't think LR would mind.

and to think this is how he started out...

3 comments:

Lone Ranger said...

When all I could see was his jawline in the incubator, I told you he'd be exceptionally good looking. Was I right or was I right? Are you reading to him yet?

I'm glad I took you on as a sidekick. You bring something special to my blog.

Wow, that looks like a great cat toy. I'll have to start shopping at Babies R Us instead of Petco.

Anonymous said...

This is a good looking boy. Playful and smiling. I am happy he gained some weight and he looks so much better on the play thing rather than in the baby baker.

My grandson has that little plaything....

Lone Ranger said...

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